The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-18
THE RAILROADS.

st. LAWRENCE, Kan, on Thursday
voted $500 TO the so.thsrn Kansas road for
Alright OF way through the city.
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
has decided 70 reduce p,,senssr fares In the
Territory OF New sor % fr,m 8 cents 10 4
cents per mile.
The Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska
road has began running throush trains to
Wichita, Kan, a distance Of $40 miles. This
wskes the line complete nom Chicago 10
The recent test OF petroleum ss fuel
for locomotive, o. the Psnssyivsnia road
appear, 10 have indicated that one pound Of
oil .esu.ls ohe snd threo-fsurth pounds Of
coal, or In other words that lltS pounds OF
oil uour barrelD EQUALS one ton Of coal.
Hon railroad authority Gays that a
'earch Of the records fails to show . single
case whore passenger essch has caught fre
fem III. lamp vhish lighted the coach, con.
.,qu.ntly safe method for heating cars Ia
the most Important question.
The Mobile snd Ohio will, TODAY,
put on throush sleeper from 81. Louis 70
Mobile. O~lngto the One condition Of the
tack b,tween s.. Louis and Cairo. vhlch
has IeosiVed much At ention OF late, the run
to Mobile will be shortened four hours.
INSTRUCTIONS have been issued by
the Southern Pacific @ mpsny 10 Ito freirht
agents, 20 male rstsi on all shipments the
zane a., u the Ions and short haul clause
ware sttl Suspended. The Atlantic AZ "a Pa
nc ana other roads Afe WORKING on the
same basis,
A TICKET agent who keeps himself
we'll posted ~ to the aa,ip Of the ticket
scslper'. states hath The last sixty days
the scalpers at Indianapolis. Chicago and
II. Louis have made more money than In
any iirty days prior 10 u . Interstate com
me CO Law taking eject How Il 10 that thsy
arets Iro porous ubder the circumstaboes
pur Q. the general pass nfer SCENTS, uho
boosted that the Passage Of the Law would
erterminAte the scaipsr.
THERE is q viag impression that
within siIty days the road, Of this country
wi be paying commissions TO AZ great an
extent a. ever In OF or 10 secure business.
some Of the strong lines announce that u 10
.nd,, This viii force their eompstitor. 70
do the same thing. AZ the matter nov
stands, the great roads Of the county are
lunerins IN Their coupon business, hut, for
tunately, local bushes, has been excellent,
hd eafninss have shown pp well.
LITTLE Rock tpeciL; An effort Ia
nov bsns made 10 construct line Of rail-
road from Bo~lIns Green. PIKE e5unty, Me-,
point on the Chicago and Alton railway,
By gar Of RsllA, No., 10 Little Rock. THIS
rpsd, tapping 81 would, tvs 81 the prin-
oipi roads In Missouri, would be Of i'm.
outlet hrUash Arkansas and Miasoa.i Nth
thiosso connections Tbs Chicago aud Al
ton vompat are intefe ted In the proposed
road. and q u believed III. lins vii, With
out doubt, DO built al an early day.
THE Arkansas snpreme q nu has
ahmed the constituton.lity Of the act Of
the last Legislature red eins railway pass.
spsH fares to cents per mile. Arkan,s. 10
thlbly lied state and II, Inhabitants are
OF much given 10 trAvel nor 20 tn patron
hsr 81 railway Il rscIo.ure sales isdis.tss.
ihe nsF law will place = serious problem be-
lore The roads, aud II will remain 10 be sssn
whether the Increase " un'ei will, 10 any
eItent, mhheup Tor the enforced reduction
NhhssSst hhilNat age
The Panhandle 4 rexa, has ia
hrst railway, the Kiosa extension Of III.
Atohison, Topeka and Santa W bavlns now
been pushed across the Iadian Territory 10
ths new tovs Of Hirsin., Just aoron tho
LeIu sordsr. The line opsps up a great cat.
We ,siouinE rosion 10 the ktstern mafkstl,
aud has been pushed With tpsed 10 enable
the railway IL nnNuFa Iha IaF.a l0.ma IL
% be -Itsndsd 70 hi Psso, Tex, si,ins ne
hiehh9n company fouts several hundred
siss shorter Than Al pre- snt u q connection
WIN Tue hsxioan Central railway. Rail
An interesting illustration OF what
Ingenuity can do 10 facilitating work aud
reducif q expenses on a railway, 1, given In
q description. In this iyus, Of a N. sdSits
machine originated and rat In uss BY ofscl-
ala OF the Idaho division, Union Pacific rail-.
way. II u proposed 10 change the gaBse q
tbis division from three feet 10 standard, and
by means OF this Ingenious maobins the
ting o! TIE ties Tor the new ssuss, over %
mlles OF line was completed In siIty days, at
a cost, INCLUDING mac insfy, fuel, wages
repairs ani interest, Of 500, At which our
cor sponaent estimatst tbAt 5000 we're
.avesi9 "a. company over the cost Of doinG
tho work by hapd.-RaiuAy Age.
NRw YoRK special; II was rumorsd
In 'hippinr circfu iyd,y that the hsnla.
eanos Of the recent sunmoninE Of Richard
j. cortis N meet O. p. Huntington 10 Liver.
pool vas the CONTEMPLATED purchase Of The
stssmsr Of the dsfupa Monarch Line b.
the Chsssg cake sad OAio Ralirsst Gen pssy.